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Reclaiming Birth After Trauma

A Guide to Birth on Your Terms

✔️ Practical comfort techniques you can do solo or with a nervous partner

✔️ Sample language and birth plan ideas to communicate your boundaries

✔️ Support strategies for partners and doulas who want to show up better

✔️Reassurance and real talk about how trauma may show up postpartum

Birth can be healing—but it can also stir up memories, emotions, and triggers you weren’t expecting. This gentle, trauma-informed guide was created for survivors who want to feel safe, empowered, and supported throughout pregnancy, birth, and early postpartum.

If you’ve experienced sexual trauma and you’re preparing for birth or breastfeeding, this guide is for you. Written in a warm, compassionate tone—like notes from a trusted friend—it walks you through everything from planning a trauma-informed birth to navigating postpartum triggers and finding comfort in feeding.

You don’t need to explain your trauma to deserve respectful care. You don’t need to do this alone.

Let this guide help you reclaim your power and move through this next chapter with support that truly sees you.

 

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Who Is This For?

Women navigating new seasons of parenting, building strength while raising strong little humans.

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First-Time or Solo Mom
Whether you’re doing this alone by choice or circumstance, this guide helps you feel seen, prepared, and powerfully equipped.
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Overwhelmed but Determined
For the ones Googling contractions at 2am, questioning if they’re ready, and quietly piecing together a plan with whatever time and energy they’ve got.
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Low-Budget, No-Village Birth Preppers
Can’t afford a doula? Far from family? No close friends nearby? This guide is your blueprint for surviving birth and postpartum with limited support—but full intention.
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Minorities
Whether you’re Black, Indigenous, disabled, queer, undocumented, low-income, or just not what your providers expect—you deserve to have your voice heard and your birth respected.

Why You Might Find This Guide Helpful:

  • You’re preparing for birth and want to feel safe, not just “informed.”
  • You’ve experienced sexual trauma and want to protect your peace—without having to retell your story.
  • You’re anxious about being touched, exposed, or not having control in the birth room.
  • Breastfeeding or chestfeeding feels complicated because of your past.
  • You want practical ways to stay grounded, calm, and in charge—even if things get intense.
  • You’re looking for kind, clear language to help your provider or support team understand your needs.
  • You want a plan that centers you—your comfort, your body, your healing—not just the baby.
  • You’re craving reassurance that what you’re feeling is valid—and that you’re not alone in this.










What You'll Get

Doing It Without a Doula is a step-by-step plan to prepare your body, your mind, and your space for birth and postpartum—even if no one is showing up with a casserole or holding your hand through contractions.

Inside, you'll get:

  • A 6 page Birth Plan Worksheet to help you walk into birth feeling more prepared—even if your plan changes
  • A realistic plan for building a support squad with whoever you've got
  • Checklists and conversation scripts to set boundaries and ask for help (without shame)
  • Practical comfort techniques you can do solo or with a nervous partner
  • A triage guide to postpartum recovery: what matters most when you’re exhausted and alone
  • Resources for free or low-cost lactation, mental health, and newborn support

You don’t need to have a team to deserve support.

You don’t need to spend money to be prepared.

You don’t need to feel ashamed for doing this differently.

You need a plan. This is it.

Hear What Satisfied Moms Say

Rated 4.8/5 by 1,200 Happy Customers

Sarah D.
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I couldn’t afford a doula, but this guide made me feel like I had one. Clear, compassionate, and incredibly useful.
Mia T.
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This rocks. Seriously.
Taylor N.
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just wanted something that didn’t make me feel dumb or broke. this did that.
Jasmine P.
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As a single mom, I felt so seen reading this. It gave me a real plan when I didn’t have a clue where to start.
Olivia G.
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Love this! Simple, empowering, and actually helpful—not just fluff.
Tasha B.
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didn’t think a pdf could make me cry but here we are lol. so glad I found this.
Sam K.
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this made me feel like less of a mess and more like…a mom with a plan?? idk it just helped.
Erica J.
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felt like someone actually gets what it’s like to do this without help. bless this guide.
Desiree M.
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I had no partner, no family nearby, and this guide walked me through how to build a little support team anyway. It literally changed how I prepped.
Tori L.
Verified Buyer
My water broke early and I was panicking, but I remembered the checklist from this guide. It gave me something solid to focus on.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this for?


Anyone giving birth without a doula, strong family support, or big budget. That includes single parents, low-income families, people far from home, or anyone whose “village” is more dream than reality.

Is this medical advice?


Nope. This guide offers grounded, experience-based tips and emotional prep—not medical guidance. Always check with your provider if something concerns you.

I already have a partner. Will this still help me?

Yes. Many people have partners who can’t or don’t know how to support them during birth. This guide helps you build a realistic plan, delegate tasks, and prepare your partner too.

I have zero support. Can this guide still help?


Yes. The guide is built for the worst-case scenario: no partner, no doula, no family, no money. It shows you how to work with whatever resources you do have—and build new ones.

Is this just for first-time parents?


Nope! Whether it’s your first or fourth baby, birth without a doula comes with unique challenges. This guide meets you where you are, regardless of experience.

How long is it? Will it take me hours to read?


No long lectures here. It’s designed to be skimmable, actionable, and ready to use—even if you’re reading it at 2 a.m. during a contraction.

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